Gasolene-storage tank.



L. KESSLER.

GASOLENE STORAGE TANK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, I914- I 1 ,1 89,968. Patented July 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET L. KESSLER.

GASOLENE STORAGE TANK.

' APPLICATION FILED SEPT-24. 1914. 1 ,1 89,968. Patented Jul 4, 1916 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- LOUIS KESSLEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GASOLENE-STRAGE TAN K.

Specifldation of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 24, 1914. Serial No. 863,284.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS KESSLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gasolene-Storage Tanks, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of two-wheeled sheet-metal gasolene-tanks, such as are used in garages for holding relatively large quantities of gasolene for supplying therefrom the relatively small tanks of automobiles, to which the garage-tank is wheeled for bringing it into] desired proximity thereto to facilitate the transfer, which is usually performed by pumping.

In this class of garage-tanks it is more ,or less ordinary practice to extend the axle from side to side through the body of thetank for journaling the wheels on its protruding ends. The holes in the tanksides for the passage through the latter of the axle-ends are closed by disk-like bearings for those ends, the bearings being usually soldered and riveted in place. That construction is objectionable, since the tank is liable to be leaky at the junction of the parts, or become so by impairment of the joints; and besides, and particularly, the bearings are liable to betorn out of place in the rough handling to which the tank is subjected. because of the comparative flimsiness of the sheet-metal tank-sides holding the bearings, which renders an impairment of this character very difficult, if not impossible, of effective repair.

The primary purpose of my invention is to avoid the difficulties referred to, by providing a substantial underframe for seating the tank, with the wheel-journals on supporting members rising from opposite sides of the frame, whereby the journals are supported independently of the tank-body, which, moreover, is materially reinforced by the underframe and journal-carrying members thereon.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a gasolene garage-tank provided with my improvements; Fig. 2 is a broken view in section on line 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the wheeled underframe, and Fig. 4 is a broken View in side elevation of the tank and unarches being also derframe showing a ber.

The tank 5, made of sheet-metal of suit able thickness, is shown in its preferred rectangular form. It has a cap-covered filljournal-carrying meming-tube 6 depending through its top near one 'end, and near, its opposite end a tube 7' with which a pump -(not shown) is connected. The underframe 8 is made of anglebars and is of the cross-sectional form of the tank to adapt the latter to fit and seat in it. Braces 8 are shown to be provided in the corners. On opposite sides of the frame extend upwardly the similar journalcarrying members. Each member comprises a flat metal arch 9-provided on its ends with feet 9 to project under the bottom of the frame-side to which they are riveted, the

riveted to the vertical sec- Patented July 4, 1916..

tions of the frame, as shown; a central fiatmetal reinforcing strut 10 having a foot 9 is similarly fastened to a frame-side, and a boss 11 is formed centrally on the face of the arch in line with the junction therewith of the strut, the boss having a journal 12 extending centrally from it. The wheels 13 are rotatably fastened on these journals.

By the construction thus described, the weight of the tank is carried on the jour naled wheels through the medium of a substantial' supporting bed Without requiring the body of the tank to be mutilated in any way for supporting it, and the objections hereinbefore referred to are completely avoided.

, It is customary to provide this type of tank with casters on its rear end for there supporting it, and these casters are journaled in bearings riveted to the opposite corners of one end of. the tank, thereby requiring the tank to be punctured by the rivets, which is undesirable for obvious reasons. enables the attachment, by trally to the rear side of the bearing 14 for the stem of a caster 15, whereby the caster-support is afforded independently of and thus without puncturing the tank, and a single caster is provided as a riveting cen- By providing my underframe, it

frame 8, of a c central support for the tank which facili- Q meeeee the opposite end of the underfmme to serve and rivetecito the frame-sides to rise on 0pas props for the corresponding end of the posite sides of the frame at the tank-sides; tank. bosses on and integral with said members What I claim as new and desire to secure and trusses at their junction, and journals 5 by Letters Patent is 1- for thewheel extending from the bosses. 15

In combination, a gasolene-tank, and a Wheeled underfmme formed of a frame com- 1 LOUIS KESSLER' posed of angle-bars, Within which the tank In presence (xviseats, journal-carrying 'members and een- A. C. FESGHER,

10 tral trusses having feet projecting beneath F. RONDEAU. 

